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... The reactions of the phosphinoboranes Ph₂PBMes₂, Ph₂PBpin, and Ph₂PBcat with the diazomethanes Ph₂CN₂, C₁₂H₈CN₂, and EtO₂CCHN₂ are shown to give products of 1,1-phosphinoboration. The products (1–6) are shown to have PNB linkages with three-coordinate boron centers, whereas the products (EtOOC)CNN(PR₂)(Bpin) (R = Ph 7, tBu 8) form zwitterionic heterocycles resulting from chelation of the ester car ...
... OBJECTIVE: To report a case of acute barium poisoning in a dog subsequent to ingestion of a common handheld pyrotechnic (sparkler). CASE SUMMARY: A 5‐year‐old female neutered German Shorthaired Pointer presented with acute onset of generalized flaccid muscle paralysis and fasciculations, ptyalism, and an irregular heart rhythm. Marked hypokalemia (1.9 mmol/L [mEq/L]; reference range [3.5–5.8 mmol/ ...
Anna K. Wanhala; Benjamin Doughty; Vyacheslav S. Bryantsev; Lili Wu; Shannon M. Mahurin; Santa Jansone-Popova; Michael C. Cheshire; Alexandra Navrotsky; Andrew G. Stack
... Rare earth element (REE) production is limited in part by inefficient strategies for beneficiation. Hydroxamic acid ligands are promising reagents for the selective flotation of bastnäsite [(Ce,La)FCO₃], a major REE ore mineral, but the mechanism and energetics of adsorption are not understood, interfering with the design of new, more efficient reagents. Here, the adsorption of octyl hydroxamic ac ...
... The increasing bacterial resistance from antibiotic overuse has fostered the search for novel antimicrobial strategies. In particular, bacterial systems involving iron (Fe) uptake are studied to develop new therapeutics against infectious diseases, because iron is crucial for bacterial growth and is a main virulence factor for infection. Iron assimilation is commonly based on the production of sid ...
Benjamin W. Stein; Amanda Morgenstern; Enrique R. Batista; Eva R. Birnbaum; Sharon E. Bone; Samantha K. Cary; Maryline G. Ferrier; Kevin D. John; Juan Lezama Pacheco; Stosh A. Kozimor; Veronika Mocko; Brian L. Scott; Ping Yang
... A major chemical challenge facing implementation of ²²⁵Ac in targeted alpha therapy—an emerging technology that has potential for treatment of disease—is identifying an ²²⁵Ac chelator that is compatible with in vivo applications. It is unclear how to tailor a chelator for Ac binding because Ac coordination chemistry is poorly defined. Most Ac chemistry is inferred from radiochemical experiments ca ...
Thomas M. Valentin; Alexander K. Landauer; Luke C. Morales; Eric M. DuBois; Shashank Shukla; Muchun Liu; Lauren H. Stephens Valentin; Christian Franck; Po-Yen Chen; Ian Y. Wong
... Nanocomposite hydrogels that incorporate 2D carbon nanomaterials could enable augmented and responsive behaviors not observed with polymeric matrices alone. In particular, non-covalent interactions could facilitate enhanced mechanical performance that can be self-recovered with external stimuli. Here, we demonstrate alginate-graphene oxide (GO) hydrogels using a non-covalent, ionic crosslinking me ...
... Identified through a bioinformatics approach, a nonribosomal peptide synthetase gene cluster in Alcanivorax pacificus encodes the biosynthesis of the new siderophore pacifibactin. The structure of pacifibactin differs markedly from the bioinformatic prediction and contains four bidentate metal chelation sites, atypical for siderophores. Genome mining and structural characterization of pacifibactin ...
... Cadmium (Cd) is considered as a non-essential heavy metal with substantial toxicity on environment. Withania somnifera, a reputed therapeutic herb exhibits vast pharmacological activities due to the presence of steroidal lactones-withanolides. The present study deals with reactive oxygen species (ROS) management through primary and secondary metabolism as adaptive response, on exogenous Cd exposur ...
... The efficient and cost-effective removal of mercury (Hg) from water is highly desired. A biopolymer/clay composite adsorbent was developed by introducing montmorillonite modified with sulfhydryl into a hyperbranched polyethylenimine functionalized carboxymethyl chitosan matrix (HPFC/MT-S), which proves to be a superior alternative for the removal of Hg(II) ions from aqueous solutions. The develope ...
... Chelates are compounds that are applied to improve nutrition, especially the micronutrients status of plant tissues. During past decades, various chelating agents have been synthesized and introduced to agricultural systems. The recent formulas are aminochelates that are synthesized using various amino acids and a single or several nutrient ions aimed at improving fertilizer use efficiency and mor ...
José Roberto Medina-Medrano; Tannia Alexandra Quiñones-Muñoz; Abel Arce-Ortíz; Juan Gabriel Torruco-Uco; Ricardo Hernández-Martínez; Manuel Alejandro Lizardi-Jiménez; Elizabeth Varela-Santos
2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl; Oreochromis; active ingredients; antioxidant activity; ascorbic acid; chelating agents; chelation; chemical analysis; collagen; dietary supplements; drugs; evisceration; filleting; flour; free radical scavengers; functional foods; galls; hydrolysis; metal ions; pepsin; raw materials; silage; value-added products; wastes
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... Efforts aimed at reduction of fishing waste generated during the evisceration and filleting are scarce. The fishing waste is used in the production of low value-added products, such as flours or silages. It is important to visualize an alternative and profitable use of this waste, as it constitutes a serious environmental problem. This research determined the antioxidant properties of collagenous ...
... Plant extracts from rosemary (RE), green tea (GTE), and maté (ME) were compared for the protection against iron-induced oxidation in porcine homogenates at total phenolic concentrations from 25 to 250 ppm. Lipid oxidation as indicated by TBARS was in all cases sufficiently suppressed, especially for RE. Hydrophobic RE retarded overall oxidation in the homogenates with an inverted dose-dependent re ...
... The thermochemical conversion of biomass (wood, straw, etc.) provides bio-oils containing some molecules with antioxidant properties and used in pharmaceutical or cosmetic industries. In this work, five different antioxidant tests were performed on eight phenolic surrogates of lignin depolymerisation mostly found in lignin bio-oils: phenol, guaiacol, syringol, pyrocatechol, o-, m-, p-cresol and va ...
... Although excess cadmium (Cd) accumulation is harmful to plants, the molecular mechanisms underlying Cd detoxification and accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana remain largely undetermined. In this study, we demonstrated that the A. thaliana PLANT DEFENSIN 2 gene AtPDF2.5 is involved in Cd tolerance and accumulation. In vitro Cd‐binding assays revealed that AtPDF2.5 has Cd‐chelating activity. Site‐d ...
... The Eucalyptus cultivation acreage was large in Guangxi provinces. Guanglin 9 (Eucalyptus grandis × Eucalyptus urophylla) is a widely cultivated Eucalyptus species and has been found to grow normally in soils contaminated by heavy metals such as arsenic (As), but the detoxification mechanisms are not clear yet. Through hydroponic experiment, the adsorption and detoxification of As in Eucalyptus we ...
... Many industrial wastewaters contain large amounts of palladium and the recovery of palladium from wastewater has great significance. Here, a new adsorbent (PMA-SNP) was synthesized by modifying nano-silica with pyromellitic anhydride to selectively adsorb Pd(II) in wastewater. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, Brunauer–Emmett–Teller equation, X-ray photoelectro ...
... Melanin plays an important role in the protection of the skin from ultraviolet irradiation. However, excessive melanin deposition leads to hyperpigmentation and freckles, which are recognized as skin problems, and signs of aging. Tyrosinase, a copper-containing protein, is the rate-limiting enzyme in melanin biosynthesis and first catalyzes the hydroxylation of l-tyrosine to 3,4-dihydroxyphenylala ...
... The objective of this work was to obtain casein hydrolysates with aspartic proteinases present in extracts from the artichoke flower (Cynara scolymus L.) and evaluate their antioxidant, antimicrobial, and angiotensin-I converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activity in vitro. The casein hydrolysates produced by the action of C. scolymus had elevated antihypertensive and antioxidant activity due to the ...
... High CO2 emissions during the production process of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) promoted greener-cement development, wherein the application of magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC) can add value to waste in potash industry and reduce environmental hazards. However, its application was restricted by its inferior water resistance. It’s a challenge to remarkably increase both the compressive strengt ...
... To study the biosorption behaviors of bacteria on heavy metal chelators, the biosorption kinetics, biosorption thermodynamics and pH influence tests of the Ochrobactrum MT180101 on ionic and chelate copper were investigated. Furthermore, the biosorption mechanisms of the Ochrobactrum MT180101 on ionic copper and chelate copper were explained by means of an excitation emission matrix as well as inf ...
Lewis acids; Lewis bases; active sites; biosynthesis; chelation; diabetes; genome; hypertension; medicine; metalloproteinases; peptides; thrombosis
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... Covering: up to 2019 Inhibitors of proteases and related enzymes have versatile applications in medicine and other areas. They are used in the clinic e.g. for the treatment of cancer, hypertension, thrombosis, diabetes as well as viral and bacterial infections. Most of these drugs are produced synthetically but a substantial part of them has been developed from or are inspired by natural products. ...
adsorption; arsenic; arsenites; atomic force microscopy; calcium; chelation; entropy; fluorides; ion exchange; iron; iron oxides; models; pH; phosphates; porous media; remediation; surface area
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... Calcium ion-incorporated hydrous iron(III) oxide (CIHIO) samples have been prepared aiming investigation of efficiency enhancement on arsenic and fluoride adsorption of hydrous iron(III) oxide (HIO). Characterization of the optimized product with various analytical tools confirms that CIHIO is microcrystalline and mesoporous (pore width, 26.97 Å; pore diameter, 27.742 Å with pore volume 0.18 cm³ g ...
acetonitrile; adsorbents; chelation; chemical species; chlortetracycline; demeclocycline; doxycycline; electrostatic interactions; high performance liquid chromatography; ions; iron; iron oxides; lakes; magnetism; methanol; oxalic acid; oxytetracycline; river water; solid phase extraction; tap water; tetracycline; wavelengths
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... A novel carboxyl Fe₃O₄ magnetic nanoparticle-based solid-phase extraction combined with high-performance liquid chromatography was developed for the analysis of oxytetracycline, tetracycline, demeclocycline, metacycline, chlortetracycline, and doxycycline in water samples. Driven by the electrostatic interaction and the strong chelation between tetracyclines and iron ions, tetracyclines in samples ...
... Tetracyclines (TCs) are important broad spectrum antibiotics which are active against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. TCs readily form epimers, especially under weakly acidic conditions. The epimers are reported to have different antibacterial and toxicological properties and pose a significant challenge for selective bioanalysis, being isobaric with the parent drug and possessing very s ...
... Two flavonols quercetin and myricetin with heat treatment and Fe²⁺/Cu²⁺ addition were assessed for stability and bioactivity changes. Quercetin and myricetin at 37 °C showed higher degradation rate constants than those at 20 °C (0.133 − 1.025 vs. 0.299 − 1.803 h⁻¹). Due to the chelation of flavonol and metals, Fe/Cu addition at the two temperatures (except Cu addition at 37 °C) mostly led to enhan ...
... Siderophores are extra-cellular inducible compounds produced by aerobic microorganisms and plants to overcome iron insolubility via its chelation and then uptake inside the cell. This work aims to study the characteristics of siderophore that is produced by a rhizosphere-inhabiting fungus. This fungus has been morphologically and molecularly identified as Aspergillus niger with the ability to prod ...
adsorption; chelation; chemical bonding; copper; gold; human serum albumin; kinetics; metal ions; protein conformation; quartz crystal microbalance; spectroscopy; tripeptides
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... Protein immobilization in a specific conformation or orientation at an interface is influenced by specific interactions with the outer layer of the surface. A strategy to build-up a complex construct which is able to orient protein molecules, based on metal-cation chelation processes, is reported. The proposed methodology implies the formation of a mercaptoundecanoic acid monolayer on a gold surfa ...
... Selenium sulfides are considered attractive cathode materials for lithium storage due to their higher specific capacities than elemental selenium and better electrical conductivity than sulfur. However, due to the dissolution of intermediate polyselenides and polysulfides, selenium sulfides suffer from fast capacity degradation and low coulombic efficiency. Herein, we report a chelation competitio ...
... siRNA holds tremendous promise to knockdown the disease-promoting gene in any cell type that it can be delivered. The biggest challenge facing the clinical translation of siRNA is to overcome the barriers that impede the in vivo delivery. siRNA is a highly hydrophilic macromolecule with poor pharmacological properties. The critical requirement for broadening the systemic siRNA delivery is to confe ...
... The efficacy against oxidative degradation in model and sulphite-free white wines of two commercial, insoluble chitosans (one being approved for winemaking) were investigated by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). Both compounds at various doses significantly inhibited the formation of α-(4-pyridyl-1-oxide)-N-t-butylnitrone (4-POBN)-1-hydroxyethyl adducts under normal wine storage conditions. P ...
... Lead (Pb) pollution has triggered a great threat to ecological system as well as public health due to its highly toxic and mutagenic properties. In this study, chitosan surface modified persimmon tannin (PT-CS) biomass composite as an environmental-friendly bioadsorbent for highly efficient removal of Pb(II) from aqueous solutions was investigated. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray di ...
... Ciprofloxacin (CIP) is a broad spectrum synthetic antibiotic drug of fluoroquinolones class. CIP can act as a bidentate ligand forming iron complexes during its degradation in the photo-Fenton process (PFP). This work investigates on PFP for the degradation of CIP to understand the formation mechanism and stability of iron complexes under ultraviolet (UV)-light illumination. A comparison was made ...
... We have applied electrospinning technique to embed cobalt, copper and nickel catalysts inside chitosan (CS) and polyacrylic acid sodium salt (PAAS) composite nanofiber mats (M@CS/PAAS) (M = Co²⁺, Cu²⁺ and Ni²⁺) as stable heterogeneous catalysts. Scanning electron microscopic analysis shows that the resultant M@CS/PAAS composite mats are bead-free and cylindrical nanofibers with mean diameter rangi ...
... Cobalt, nickel and iron are efficient catalysts for numerous chemical and biological reactions, but they are hardly immobilized on solid matrixes due to their relatively weak chelation with the surface molecules. We have employed a co-electrospraying coupling with glutaraldehyde cross-linking technique to prepare cobalt (Co2+), nickel (Ni2+) and iron (Fe2+) catalyst embedded chitosan microparticle ...
... The cobalt-catalyzed chelation-assisted C–H iodination of aromatic amides using molecular iodine as an iodinating reagent is reported. The reaction is carried out in an atmosphere of air and uses Co(OAc)₂·4H₂O as an efficient catalyst and 4-chloro-2-(4,5-dihydrooxazol-2-yl)aniline as a directing group. The reaction shows a wide functional group tolerance. Mechanistic studies suggest that the react ...
... Microelectrode measurements carried out on leaf cells from Physcomitrella patens revealed that a sudden temperature drop and application of menthol evoked two types of different‐shaped membrane potential changes. Cold stimulation evoked spike‐type responses. Menthol depolarized the cell membrane with different rates. When it reached above 1 mV s⁻¹, the full response was recorded. Characteristic fo ...
EDTA (chelating agent); activated sludge; carbon; chelation; chemical oxygen demand; denitrification; electric potential difference; energy costs; fatty acid composition; fermentation; hydrolysis; metal ions; phosphates; phosphorus; polymers; propionic acid; protein content; short chain fatty acids; waste utilization
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... High voltage pulsed discharge has proved to be an efficient method for waste activated sludge pretreatment, however, the energy consumption of this pretreatment is always high, which hindered the practical application. In the present study, a combined ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid and high voltage pulsed discharge pretreatment method was firstly proposed to enhance short-chain fatty acids and ...
... Common hop (Humulus lupulus L.) has significant health-promoting properties. Hop cones contain resins, essential oils, proteins, polyphenols, lipids, waxes, and cellulose. Hop extracts include bioactive compounds such as polyphenolic compounds (phenolic acids, and flavonols), and chlorophylls. The aim of this study was to compare the pro-health potential of hop cone extracts obtained from three cu ...
... Legume-rhizobial symbiosis plays an important role in agriculture and ecological restoration. However, knowledge of the molecular mechanisms, especially the microstructure and global transcriptional profiling, of the symbiosis process under heavy metal contamination is limited. In this study, a heavy metal-tolerant legume, Medicago lupulina, was treated with different concentrations of copper (Cu) ...
... The mitigation of gypsum scaling on reverse osmosis (RO) membrane using carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) as a green antiscalant was investigated in this study. Static test was conducted to pre-evaluate the inhibition performance and mechanism against gypsum scale using optical microscope and X-ray diffraction (XRD) as auxiliary analysis methods. The antiscaling effects in the RO system were investiga ...
... We describe the synthesis and properties of a series of sulfonium boranes featuring a dimesitylboryl unit and a dimethylsulfonium or methylphenyl sulfonium moiety connected by an ortho- or para-phenylene linker. Acid-base and fluoride anion tritration experiments carried out in aqueous media indicate that [o-(Mes2B)C6H4(SMePh)]+ is the most Lewis acidic derivative. Structural and computational ana ...
... BACKGROUND: Inorganic salts could be used as catalysts for the effective conversion of sugars. In this study, the impacts of various metal sulfates (Na₂SO₄, K₂SO₄, MnSO₄, CoSO₄, NiSO₄, ZnSO₄, CuSO₄, Fe₂(SO₄)₃, La₂(SO₄)₃ and Ce(SO₄)₂) on the conversion of glucose/fructose to levulinic acid in varied reaction media were evaluated. RESULTS: The sulfates strongly chelated with the sugars, preventing t ...
... A new electrochemical interface based on polyacrylic acid (PAAcid) immobilized in a Nafion® polymeric matrix on graphite screen-printed electrodes for detecting copper is presented. The copper is retained in the surface due to the capacity of the polyacid to chelate metals, and quantified using square wave voltammetry. The response was characterized by spectroscopic techniques (UV-vis-IR), which c ...
... In this paper, Cu2+ functionalized Fe3O4@polydopamine core-shell (Fe3O4@PDA@Cu2+) magnetic microspheres were prepared by the chelation between Cu2+ and catechol of polydopamine surface. The synthetic magnetic adsorbent was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, vibrating sample magnetometry, thermogravimetric analysis, scanning electron micr ...
... Increase of undigested complexes of phytic acid in food is gaining serious attention to overcome nutritional challenges due to chelation effects. We investigated soil-borne yeast phytase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (NCIM 3662) for dephytinization of foods, probiotic properties, and process development. The strain produced 45 IU/DCG by cell-bound phytase in an unoptimized medium was increased fou ...
... The formation and accumulation of toxic amyloid beta (Aβ) protofibrils in brain is recognized as the pathological hallmark of alzheimer’s disease (AD). Recent research indicated that photodynamic therapy (PDT) has potential to treat AD because reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated by photosensitizers (PS) could degrades Aβ protofibrils. Al³⁺ and Fe³⁺ were found at markedly high levels on and aro ...
... Recently, luminescent metal–organic framework (MOF) materials have attracted considerable attention in fluorescence sensing. In this essay, we prepared a new cluster-based Caᴵᴵ-MOFs {[Ca₁.₅(μ₈-HL₁)(DMF)₂]·DMF}ₙ (1) with good water dispersibility, excellent photoluminescence properties (FL quantum yield of 20.37%) and great fluorescence stability. Further, it was employed to design as an “off–on” f ...
... A dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (DLLME) method was developed based on the application of a magnetic ionic liquid (MIL) used as extractant phase for trace As determination in honey samples by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry (ETAAS). The procedure was simple, efficient and did not require a centrifugation stage. The As(III) species was preconcentrated by chelation with ammon ...
... The present study describes chelation of Pb(II) with ascorbic acid and formation of a charge-transfer sensitive ion-pair in the presence of Rhodamine 6G at pH 5.5, and then its extraction to the micellar phase of non-ionic surfactant, PONPE 7.5 by an ultrasound-assisted cloud point extraction method before analysis by FAAS. The various variables affecting ion-pair formation and extraction efficien ...
boron; chelation; chemical structure; diastereoselectivity; hydrides; sulfonates
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... The diastereoselective reduction of γ-keto-sulfonates to afford α,γ-substituted γ-hydroxy sulfonates has been investigated. Herein we report the first example of a diastereoselective carbonyl reduction whereby hydride attack is directed via chelation of a neighbouring sulfonate group to a boron atom, thus affording prevalently trans γ-hydroxy sulfonates. ...